In 1865, Lewis Carroll turned Victorian children's literature on its head with the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A quarter of a century later, in Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), he did the same for the Victorian novel. Presenting dual plots, the novels describe an attempt by the warden of Outland to usurp the birthright of the fairy children Sylvie and Bruno, and the rivalry of Captain Eric Linden and Dr. Arthur Forester for Lady Muriel Orme, in the English town of Elveston. Adults and children alike will find the legendary Carroll nonsense, whimsy, and charm in these stories—as well as startling techniques not found in the Alice books.
Author
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. He also has works published under his real name.
